The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-09-01

tie. Let the senatorship be sent to the rear
for the present. Let the people, it the
right to control their own affairs be denied
them, take it. Who can hinder them
The issue is not now who shall be senator,
but whether the Republicans shall obtain
majority in the Legislature, and so be
able, among other and more important
things, to elect Republican senator. But
the greatest issue of all is whether the
people constituting this party shall be per
mitted to direct its policy. a high au
thority has said it would not do for the
people to have control of the organization.
If that be SO, the sooner it shall be admit
ted the better, for a party which is not tit
to govern aaitself would be very unfit to
govern the state or even to select a United
States senator.
REPUBLICAN DIsAFFECTION.
"Have you any reason to believe, Gov
erLOr, that the views you have expressed
are shared by any considerable numb Der of
leading Republicans an. of the rank and
file of the party ?" asked the reporter.
II have the best evidence, ''rtplied Gov.
Cameron. (which can exist of that fact in
the voluntary approach to me every day in
person and by letter. from every portion of
the State, expressing the substance of what
has been said, and urgently asking what
Can be done to avert the danger. L do not
know, of course. to what extent these gen
tlemen represent majority Of the party,
but ! do know that they speak for an ele
ment which in the past has been and which
now is indispensable to the success of the
party. Their names might be stated. but
it seems better to let each speak for him
self or to await what is possible, state
m in yx,Ii MI chal oil
A REPUBLICAN DEFEAT PREDI( TED.
Do you think this element will take any
active steps in the direction indicated
Yes. [ know every legitimate effort
will be made to impress it's influence on the
primary meetings. 1t would have been far
preferable that a State convention should
have been held, for then all matters of diff
ference might have been fully discussed
and every chance taken for removing the
causes. AS it is. there is nothing left but
submission or direct appeal to the people
and the latter will be N 4de in some form.
Of course, it will be said that all such
movements are directed primarily to the
defeat of General Malone; but in my
Judgment without some such movement
not only General Malone, but-which is
OF Infinitely more Importance in every eye
save that of the State Executive Commit
tee-Jhe Republican party must be over
taken by a defeat practically irreparabIe,
in which General Malone woult he inyol-
we'd. AS said above, | do not consider the
election of General Malone to be indis
pensabe to the good either of the State of
Virginia or OF those who believe that both
State and party might not survive his re-
election. Neither of these things would
be true were it true that the Admlnistra-
ton OF the United States Government for
the coming six years depended upon the
next senator from Virginia. The desider
alum is that the senatorship shall not be
seized by the throat by anybody. and that
the Republicans shall choose their own
members of the Legislature. and thereby,
if they have a majority. their Sn senator.
whether it be General Malone or any one
else.
Governor, have you read General Ma
homes recent pamphlet ?
/ h9Vp but 1naun no al m q h oroip n, ado